History

Drinking beer is very much an in-the-moment experience. Bottles are opened, pints are poured, glasses are emptied, and the whole process repeats countless times a day. For many drinkers and brewers, beer is at the forefront of their minds as they continually look toward the next round and style. However, for all the forward momentum... View Article

When All About Beer Magazine was launched in 1979, nobody talked, wrote or maybe even dreamt about something called craft beer. Five years later Vince Cottone, a beer columnist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer who contributed to numerous publications, first used the phrases craft-brewing scene, craft brewery and craft brewing in the manner they are thought... View Article

Brewers Association Small—Annual production of 6 million barrels of beer or less (approximately 3 percent of U.S. annual sales). Beer production is attributed to the rules of alternating proprietorships. Independent—Less than 25 percent of the craft brewery is owned or controlled (or equivalent economic interest) by an alcoholic beverage industry member that is not itself... View Article

Editor’s Note: This story appears in the March 2015 issue of All About Beer Magazine. To see a timeline of All About Beer Magazine covers throughout the years, look for the March issue on newsstands. Click here to subscribe to the magazine. In 1979, in the fourth issue of All About Beer, at the bottom of... View Article

Buried deep in the cellars of Britain’s oldest brewery, records of recipes from Victorian times stored in a dust-covered box were found to be written in a code that would baffle modern spy masters. The brewers’ books—large leather-bound tomes like those used by Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’ A Christmas Carol—were discovered by John Owen, historian... View Article

An Inside Look at the Pioneering Days of American Craft BeerJuly 1, 2013 -
Tom Acitelli

One day in August, 1965, a 27-year-old former graduate student in Japanese studies at Stanford walked into his favorite bar, the Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco’s trendy North Beach neighborhood. He ordered his usual: an Anchor Steam. The bar’s owner, a World War II veteran and local eccentric named Fred Kuh, ambled over. “You... View Article

Driven by the never-ending nostalgia craze, several old-time brands have risen from the grave, including: Duquesne (1899-1972) Once king of western Pennsylvania, the Duke returned a couple years ago, calling itself “the Prince of Pilsner.” Falls City (1905-1978) Formed as an attempt to break Louisville’s beer monopoly, the brand was once the official beer of... View Article

“Brewing since 1907.” For an industry that spends millions to emphasize the freshness of its product, there’s still some attention to be paid to dusty, sepia-shaded history. “Made in San Francisco since 1896.” It takes some looking, but if you shuffle through the cooler at your local beer store you’ll find labels that proudly boast... View Article